The Globe and the Circle : Geometry and Economic Geography as Tribute to Thales and Nash

The geometry of the line and the circle has been used in economics for a long time to understand location choice and political positioning in democratic polity. This paper draws on some elementary ideas from geometry and game theory to extend some...

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Main Author: Basu, Kaushik
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26782414/globe-circle-geometry-economic-geography-tribute-thales-nash
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25132